OUT NOW Elevated CO2 interacts with nutrient inputs to restructure plant communities in phosphorus-limited grasslands 📄 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11… Chris Taylor Gareth Phoenix Ben Keane Plants, Photosynthesis and Soil Soil Ecology Lab UoM Ecological Continuity Trust (ECT)

The scale of climate change can be a bit mind-boggling at times. For example, the Greenland ice sheet has lost over 6 trillion metric tons of ice since 1970 – or more than 700 tonnes lost per person for every person on the planet today:

This gorgeous new BBC chart shows how the coldest days on Earth now are warmer than the hottest days before the 1980s. You know who predicted this would happen with near-perfect precision? Exxon Mobil scientists, in an internal report in 1982. Two versions of the same chart:

Ah yeah I thought it was a good idea to save the planet and the billions of people on it from the disastrous effects of climate breakdown. But Westminster groupthink has decided it’s “out of fashion” so it’s probably fine to forget it!

Chasing the magic number - when will the AMOC collapse? We know it can collapse. Has collapse many times. And we are moving towards collapse. IPCC puts probability to < 10%. Low? Oh no, For a catastrophic event, this is VERY high. World needs to wake up. insideclimatenews.org/news/09022024/…

Absolutely delighted to have joined BES Stirling University of Stirling as Natural Environment Research Council research fellow! 🥳 Exploring climate change impacts on 🏔️ soil 🦠🍄 with great partners Anita Risch, Hagedorn, Frey and annekempel WSL Umweltforschung and Bardgett Soil Ecology Lab UoM. More here: stir.ac.uk/news/2023/july…

Congratulations 🎉🎉 Doctor Jasmine Roha Wakefield a superb PhD with great research. Well done Plants, Photosynthesis and Soil Prof Thorunn 🇮🇸 🌿

Excited to see this out! Had a great time talking to Kaydee Barker (she/ella) about our work on #climate change in alpine ecosystems 🏔🌿🦠 the whole podcast series is awesome so check it out!

This terrifying FT chart paints my lifetime in the inexorably rising colours of global warming Eyeballing, it looks like, what, 0.75C of warming since the 1980s? And just look at the way the coolest months in the 2020s are mostly hotter than the hottest of the 1980s!

📢 RESEARCH 🚨hot off the press Global Change Biology : Climate change disrupts the seasonal coupling of plant and soil microbial nutrient cycling in an alpine ecosystem 🍄🦠🏔️🌿 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11… Massive team effort Soil Ecology Lab UoM Functional Ecology: UIBK Research Group UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology COMI | HMGU 🥳🍻

New paper out led by Katie Journeaux reveals a potential #climatechange feedback mechanism where wood decomposing #fungi do not show compensatory thermal responses, allowing for increased #carbon respiration under #warming